President Bowling reported on the following issues to the unit owners present at the Le Baron Condominium Board meeting this date:

Status report on rusting doors legal action:
Through March 10, 2010, legal fees totaling approximately $27,000 have been expended in the rusting door action files in Palm Beach County. These fees have been paid from the association’s general revenue account. To date there has been no assessment of owners for legal fees pertaining to this matter. However, in the future assessments for additional legal fees may be required.

Security Issues:
It has come to the attention of the Board that owner’s and workmen are blocking the main entry doors open to allow easy entry for materials and workmen. Blocking open the entry doors is a breach of security and is prohibited.

Only workmen and contractors with approved licenses and liability insurance, filed in the office, are permitted to work in our buildings. Workmen are to be instructed by the owner not to block the doors and to use only the service elevators for material and workmen transport. It is the unit owner’s responsibility for admittance of their workmen to the building. It is the unit owner responsibility to advise the office to pad the service elevator the day before material deliveries.

Unit owners are cautioned against providing security keys to the front door to their contractors.

Licensed General, Plumbing and Air Conditioning Contractors:
The Le Baron has recently experienced numerous water leaks from faulty plumbing

and remodeling work installed by unlicensed plumbers and general contractors. Leaking shower pans have been installed by unlicensed general contractors that caused damage to units below. We have also experienced fire damage to owner’s units by plumbers doing soldering in major remodeling without a city building permit.

The City of Hillsboro Beach does not require a permit for service work. However, they do require the owner’s contractor, prior to starting construction or remodeling, to obtain a building, plumbing, electrical and air conditioning permit for remodeling.

The Board of Directors will continue to contact the city authorities when unlicensed contractors are found working without a permit. In the past the city has issued cease and desist orders to owners for work not permited.

The Board of Directors will continue this policy and emphatically suggest to all owners to hire only licensed and permitted contractors for work in the Le Baron Condominium.

Parking:
Parking in guest slots is by permit only. Please have your guests check into the office for a Guest Permit. If your guest is to arrive in the evening or the weekend we request the owner register their guest’s car in advance in the office and obtain a guest permit. The guest parking will be strictly monitored this winter and violators will be towed.

There are many cars of unit owners parked in their assigned slots that do not have a valid parking sticker. We encourage all owners to register their autos with the office and obtain a valid parking sticker. The procedure is required when owners bring new cars, leased cars or borrowed cars to the Le Baron. We request your cooperation as we try to manage the Le Baron parking.

Railings:
A Notice of Claim of Construction Defects was presented to the Restoration Contractor and his railing subcontractors on March 30, 2010. The Florida Statute provides that they have 50 days to inspect the defective railings and 75 days to submit a plan of action.

New Entry Doors:
New code approved entry doors have been order for both association buildings. The board intends to have these doors installed prior to hurricane season. The doors will be keys to the keys currently in use.

Clubhouse Professional Cleaning:
The Board has ruled that when unit owners rent the Clubhouse, a cash deposit will be required to provide professional cleaning of the Clubhouse at the end of the rental period.

New Management Company:
Consolidated Community Management, Inc. has been well received and the transition has been seamless. Many owners questioned why the former office and maintenance staff were no longer employed at the Le Baron. The former staff were employees of Residential Management and not employees of the Le Baron as many of our owners perceived.

The Board is well pleased with the new office and maintenance staff.

East Building Stack 11 Water Intrusion:
Our engineer has inspected the East Building Stack 11 where water intrusion has caused some spalding of concrete and leakage through the walls. The damaged is attributed to expansion and contraction experience during the cold winter season.

The restoration contractor has been contacted to repair this damage as soon as possible. The affected owners in stack 11 will be notified by the office if entry is required into their unit.

Respectfully submitted,

Samuel M. Bowling
President of the Board of Directors